High-speed trains could be the Indian Railways’ answer to low-cost airlines
It’s 7 a.m. on a Monday morning and you are in Amritsar. You’ve to get to Delhi for an important business meeting at 10 a.m. But, there are no flight tickets available and the drive will take you at least eight hours. What do you do? You walk into the Amritsar railway station and buy an early morning high-speed train ticket to Delhi. You board the train at 7:30 a.m., read your financial daily, eat breakfast and viola! You are in Delhi at 9 a.m.
(This story appears in the 06 November, 2009 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)